The Stove is an original mixed media painting on paper by Arthur Berry, signed and dated 1977. This framed work takes a Victorian pub stove as its subject, exploring the warmth and companionship associated with English public houses.
The stove is of a type often found in English pubs before the 1980s. In the background, Berry includes the faint outline of a trousered leg and boot, perhaps suggesting a drinker warming himself beside the fire in one of the best seats in the house.
The subject recalls Berry’s monologue Lament for the Lost Pubs of Burslem, in which he describes stoves in public houses. His account of the Queens, demolished and replaced by a modern row of shops in the 1980s, remembers rows of seats with stoves at their ends.
By making the stove the focus of the painting, Berry invites reflection on the basic human need for warmth. The work records an aspect of pub life that has largely disappeared, while the renewed popularity of log burners and concerns about heating costs in the 2020s give the subject a contemporary resonance.
Artwork details
- Artist: Arthur Berry.
- Title: The Stove.
- Medium: Mixed media on paper.
- Signed and dated 1977.
- Painting size: 77 × 52 cm / 30.25 × 20.5 inches.
- Framed size: 91 × 69 cm / 35.75 × 27.25 inches.
- Supplied framed.
Provenance and exhibition history
A Ragged Richness, The Brampton Museum and Art Gallery, Newcastle-under-Lyme, 2021.
A Sense of Place, Arthur Berry exhibition, 9 August to 21 September 2025.
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